Web Security - Dr Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د أثير محارب السهيري

U.S. Government Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Attacks

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريCloud Security, DNS, Web Security January 23, 2019Comments are Disabled

An emergency directive from the Department of Homeland Security provides “required actions” for U.S. government agencies to prevent widespread DNS hijacking attacks. The Department of Homeland Security is ordering all federal agencies to urgently audit Domain Name System (DNS) security for their domains in the next 10 business days. The department’s rare “emergency directive,” issued …

How Web Apps Can Turn Browser Extensions Into Backdoors

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريPrivacy, Web Security January 22, 2019Comments are Disabled

Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data. Researchers have added another reason to be suspicious of web browser extensions. According to a recently published academic report, various Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser extensions can be compromised by …

PHISHING BIGGEST THREAT TO GOOGLE ACCOUNT SECURITY

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريWeb Security November 15, 2017Comments are Disabled

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyze how cybercriminals operating underground markets for stolen …